Regional Product Manager

Acuity Inc.; Athens (GA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Dental coverage

Vision plans

401K benefits

Commissions/incentive compensation

Job summary

Acuity Inc. seeks a Regional Product Manager to drive regional market discovery and translate customer insights into actionable product plans. You will synthesize field intelligence and collaborate with global teams to shape product strategy across our AIS business segment.

Based in the United States with travel, you will partner with sales, marketing and engineering to validate opportunities and prioritize features in the product roadmap. Strong business acumen and VoC experience are essential.

Qualifications

• This role requires translating market feedback into strategic recommendations.
• Experience turning customer insights into product decisions.
• Ability to work with sales, marketing and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional market discovery and VoC programs to identify needs and whitespace.
• Synthesize field intelligence into actionable product strategies for AIS business.
• Collaborate with global product marketing and product management for roadmap planning.

Skills

Strong business acumen

Systems-thinking mindset

Analytical judgement

VoC/market discovery experience

Credibility with technical andbusiness

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Q-SYS, our innovative full stack audio, video and control platform, unifies data, devices and a cloud-first architecture, empowering organizations to deliver transformative AV experiences across built spaces. Building on the QSC legacy, QSC Audio delivers audio technology that empowers live entertainers and sound reinforcement professionals with the confidence to create and deliver memorable experiences for their audiences. Atrius, Distech Controls and QSC are part of the Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS) business segment. Our mission is to make spaces smarter, safer and greener through our strategy of connecting the edge with the cloud using disruptive technologies that leverage data interoperability.

NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals. Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. This position may be based anywhere in the United States and includes travel as part of the responsibilities.

This role is built for a connector, someone who listens deeply to the market, translates complexity into clarity and helps to shape product strategy through grounded, regional insights. As a Regional Product Manager, you’ll operate at the intersection of customer needs and company vision. Lead regional market discovery, including Voice of Customer (VoC), win/loss analysis and market validation to uncover customer needs, adoption barriers and whitespace opportunities.

Translate field intelligence into actionable insight, synthesizing customer feedback, competitive signals and market trends into clear recommendations for product and business leaders

Partner closesly with global product marketing and product management to inform new product planning, feature tradeoff discussions and lifecycle and forecasting decisions using customer insights, competitive intelligence and market data.

Develop and maintain competitive intelligence across the QSC portfolio, including battle cards, differentiation narratives and objection-handling tools that enable sales and technical teams to successfully sell.

Drive regional NPI readiness by training sales, technical and support teams, coordinating pre-sales demo products and working across stakeholder groups to design demo experiences for external audiences

Strong technical and product fluency, with previous experience in product management, sales engineering, application engineering or similar roles

• ~ Strong business accumen, ability to think about the business case as deeply as the technology and translate market feedback into forecasts and business planning
• ~ A systems-thinking mindset, connect individual data points to broader market patterns, business implications and strategic tradeoffs
• ~ Analytical judgement, including comfort with ambiguity, tradeoff analysis and contextualizing customer input within broader products and business strategy
• ~ Experience with customer insight programs including Voice of the Customer (VoC), win/loss analysis, market discovery or similar efforts
• ~ Credibility with both technicl and business audiences, ability to incluence without atuhtority across functions and levels
• ~ High School Diploma or equivalent
• ~6 to 8 years of relevant work experience

Travel Requirements

~These companies share a global recruitment system on which the data you provide will be stored, and which will be subject to the laws of the United States of America.

• health care
• dental coverage
• vision plans
• 401K benefits
• commissions/incentive compensation depending on role

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation in the Application Process: It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws requiring reasonable accommodation of persons with disabilities in employment. This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation in the application process. If you believe you need reasonable accommodation to assist with our online application system or any aspect of the application process, please contact Human Resources at , and select option 4. Please be prepared to identify the requisition / position applied for and the aspect of the application process for which you believe accommodation is needed. employees, or to Acuity Inc. resume database will be considered Acuity Inc. property.